The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Docklands, London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 16 24 13
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing UNIX 13 9 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 7.514% 4.688% 14.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.33% 19.15% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 28
Average daily rate £448 £475 £460
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.78% +3.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £387 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
30 47 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 17.34% 24.48% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 49
Average daily rate £360 £386 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.79% -3.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +52.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
London

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Docklands, London UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Docklands, London UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing UNIX also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited UNIX.

1 17 (70.83%) Banking
2 12 (50.00%) Linux
3 11 (45.83%) Perl
3 11 (45.83%) Investment Banking
4 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 9 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 8 (33.33%) Solaris
5 8 (33.33%) Equities
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle
6 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
7 6 (25.00%) SAN
7 6 (25.00%) Java
7 6 (25.00%) LDAP
8 5 (20.83%) Sybase
8 5 (20.83%) Windows
8 5 (20.83%) SUSE
8 5 (20.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (16.67%) Derivative
9 4 (16.67%) Change Management
9 4 (16.67%) ITIL
9 4 (16.67%) MS Office
9 4 (16.67%) DNS
9 4 (16.67%) IBM
9 4 (16.67%) NFS
10 3 (12.50%) Blackberry
10 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
10 3 (12.50%) Citrix
10 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
10 3 (12.50%) Cognos
10 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing UNIX also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) Web Services
1 3 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (4.167%) XML
2 1 (4.167%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 1 (4.167%) Lync
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Office
2 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) SAN
1 6 (25.00%) LDAP
2 4 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.167%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (70.83%) Banking
2 11 (45.83%) Investment Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Retail
3 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 4 (16.67%) UNIX Engineer
1 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (12.50%) DBA
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
3 2 (8.333%) QA Consultant
3 2 (8.333%) Administrator
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (8.333%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.167%) Security Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Tester
4 1 (4.167%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.167%) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Equities
2 4 (16.67%) Derivative
3 3 (12.50%) Blackberry
4 2 (8.333%) PMI
5 1 (4.167%) Cryptography
5 1 (4.167%) CLARiiON
5 1 (4.167%) Fixed Income
5 1 (4.167%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Solaris
3 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) SUSE
4 2 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.333%) HPUX
5 1 (4.167%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Change Management
1 4 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (12.50%) OO
2 3 (12.50%) TDD
2 3 (12.50%) Automated Testing
2 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
2 3 (12.50%) Scrum
2 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (8.333%) PRINCE2
3 2 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.167%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Business Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Service Management
4 1 (4.167%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.167%) Information Security
4 1 (4.167%) Migration
4 1 (4.167%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.167%) Release Management
4 1 (4.167%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Perl
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 6 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) C
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) C++
4 3 (12.50%) Bash shell
5 2 (8.333%) Python
5 2 (8.333%) Ruby
6 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) CAPM
1 2 (8.333%) PMP
1 2 (8.333%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.167%) OCA
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (16.67%) NFS
3 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (4.167%) VMware ESX
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.167%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (4.167%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.167%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.167%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.167%) Data Guard
2 1 (4.167%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
1 7 (29.17%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.83%) Sybase
3 4 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) Citrix
4 3 (12.50%) Cognos
5 2 (8.333%) Veritas
5 2 (8.333%) HP
6 1 (4.167%) Reuters
6 1 (4.167%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.167%) Symantec
6 1 (4.167%) EMC
6 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.167%) Sun
6 1 (4.167%) Cisco
6 1 (4.167%) VMware
6 1 (4.167%) F5
6 1 (4.167%) Aveksa